Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

Just kill me. My life is nothing without you. Drive me mad. Let me be your sustenance. Eat my soul. You’re… you’re tearing me apart!

Making each day count like it's your last day to fulfill your dreams, is unarguably the master key to a future full of great rewards.

Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

I'm known as being a massive dweeb who's into video games and so on.

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.